Re: [tor-relays] Good hosting location for exit relay

[Tim Semeijn <noc@xxxxxxxx>]

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Hey,

Looking for an appropriate ISP is indeed quite a search. Since I
started hosting Tor Exit nodes my own search still continues. The
Good/Bad ISPs list is handy but there are more ways to help you on
your journey.

I myself want to be able to push a lot of traffic for a decent price
so I use the torstatus page of Blutmagie
(http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/) to see what ISPs the big nodes are
hosted. Together with general search engine searching and e-mailing
the ISPs about their policies towards Exit nodes being hosted there,
this gives quite some options to look into.

Spreading all nodes over as many geolocations and different ISPs is
important but as most ISPs do not like Tor there is no endless pool of
possible ISPs.

When looking for the best country to host I always try to avoid the
USA and most Middle East/Asian countries if they have dodgy human
rights infringing laws of some kind. Like mentioned on the Good/Bad
ISPs page they advise to not host in Austria because of some dude
getting sued there. I do not know exactly what the risk is if you are
not a resident of Austria yourself though.

Even though clustering nodes at the same ISP is not best for
geo-spreading, I can tell you that from my own experience there are
quite some parties which offer hosting for a decent price.

- - server.lu

Located in Luxembourg, fair prices. Their VPS-es can push 200 Mbps but
they will shut it down as you are not allowed that much. They allow
exit nodes on their dedicated servers though (starting at EU 35,00).

- - Leaseweb

Used to offer dedicated servers with 100 Mbps in Germany and The
Netherlands starting at EU 39,00. It looks though that they have
changed the packages they offer recently.

- - Unmetered.com

Starting at EU 59,00 they offer dedicated servers with guaranteed 500
Mbps in Germany and the States. Some big nodes seem to be hosted here.

My advise would be to look around and use the Good/Bad ISPs wiki page
as part of the set of tools to look for the best ISP to host your Exit
node.

Hope my thoughts about this will be of some help. For me I am still
looking around every week to see what ISP can make me a happier Tor
Exit node hoster.

Best regards,

On 09/24/2014 12:49 PM, DerTor Steher wrote:
> Hey, for a few days now I'm looking for an appropriate ISP for my
> new exit relay. There are a few problem I am facing now: 1.) Since
> I'm living in germany it isn't the very best to host an exit relay
> in germany, so I need to know which country is (law related) the
> best country I could host my VPS. 2.) The choice of a hoster. It's
> not easy to find a good and reliable and (if possible) cheap hoster
> which allows tor exit relays so I need to crawl to whole Good/Bad
> ISPs list for such providers.
> 
> If I had the cash I would rent a server at Cyberbunker but it's to 
> expensive to only run a relay there.
> 
> I would appreciate if you could help me or at least give me some
> tips with finding the best country and provider.
> 
> Thanks. :)
> 
> 
> 
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Tim Semeijn
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